Who is Nathan?

Nathan Daniel Dixon was born February 17, 2005. He's a handsome little boy with blonde hair and hazel eyes. He loves trucks, trains, and basically anything with wheels. He's the younger sibling of Alyssa Marie Dixon, his 5-year old sister. And up until the morning of Saturday, August 4 2007, he was very much like any other 2.5-year old boy who likes to run around and cause trouble.

Shortly after noon on Saturday, August 4th 2007, we (my wife Christa, our two kids and myself) headed out to run some errands. Not even 10 minutes later, the scariest event in my life began to unfold. This blog is the journal of my son's fight with the birth defect known as Intestinal Malrotation and the condition it can cause named Volvulus. Although the primary goal of these writings are to communicate the state of Nathan's recovery to his family and friends, I hope that others who are unfamiliar with this defect (as I was) will be better prepared to identify and react to the symptoms it presents.